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VOLUME  VII 


NUMBER  2 


■GUMPSES 


OF 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 
COLLEGE  LIFE 


DURHAM,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE 
PUBLISHED  BY  THE  COLLEGE 


The  New  Hampshire  College  desires  to  call  the 
attention  of  all  seniors  in  high  schools  and  of  others 
interested  to  the  opportunity  the  state  provides  for 
advanced  training  at  Durham.  To  that  end  several 
special  copies  of  the  college  paper,  setting  forth  in 
some  detail  the  work  of  the  different  divisions  of 
the  college,  will  be  mailed  as  issued.  The  annual 
catalog  will  follow  these  special  copies  and  this 
illustrated  booklet.  Please  accept  these  with  the 
compliments  of 

New  Hampshire  College. 


Volume  VII  FEBRUARY,  1916  Number  2 

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Entered  as  second-class  matter  August  5,  1907,  at  the  Post  Office  at  Durham,  N.  H.,  under 
Act  of  Congress  of  July  16,  1894 


GLIMPSES 

OF 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  COLLEGE 

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This  booklet  has  been  issued  by  the  College  to  answer  some 
of  the  many  questions  received  in  Durham  every  day 


New  Hampshire  College  Campus. 


GENERAL  INFORMATION. 


The  widespread  interest  in  the  New  Hampshire  State 
College  has  prompted  the  preparation  and  publishing  of 
this  bulletin,  which,  together  with  the  college  catalog,  it  is 
hoped,  will  afford  a  comprehensive  view  of  this  institution 
in  its  social  and  scholastic  activities. 

The  fact  that  it  is  a  State  College  means  that  it  is  a  part 
of  the  state  educational  system.  It  is  conducted  for  the 
benefit  of  all  of  the  people  of  the  State.  Students  coming 
here  may  take  work  in  agriculture,  in  engineering,  in  home 
economics  or  in  arts  and  science.  These  are  the  general 
divisions,  each  of  them  including  many  courses  and  subjects. 

HOW  TO  GET  IN.  . 

The  entrance  requirements  are  simple.  The  graduation 
credential  from  an  approved  high  school  will  admit  any 
candidate  who  has  taken  in  high  school  a  course  which  cov¬ 
ers  the  college  entrance  requirements.  The  usual  four- 
year  high  school  course  does  this,  though  there  are 
occasional  exceptions.  The  college  catalog  which  is  sent 
to  any  one  on  request  will  explain  the  different  division 
requirements  in  detail. 

FOR  MEN  AND  WOMEN. 

New  Hampshire  College  is  for  men  and  women.  At 
present,  of  the  600  students  here,  there  are  500  men  and 
100  women.  The  women  are  enrolled  in  the  Home  Eco¬ 
nomics  or  in  the  General  Arts  and  Science  course.  This 
latter  is  a  course  planned  for  those  who  seek  a  general 
education  which  will  fit  them  for  teaching,  other  professional 
work,  or  business.  Women  may  take  any  course,  however, 
and  they  frequently  elect  agricultural  subjects. 


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WHERE  THE  COLLEGE  IS. 

The  college  is  located  at  Durham,  a  small  town  near 
Dover,  in  Strafford  County,  in  the  southeast  corner  of  the 
state.  It  was  originally  established  at  Hanover  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  Dartmouth  College,  but  in  1893  the  state  accepted 
the  property  of  Benjamin  Thompson,  a  farmer  of  Durham. 
It  took  his  farm  for  a  campus  and  established  the  college 
there  as  an  independent  school.  The  Thompson  farm  is 
at  the  edge  of  the  village  of  Durham,  and  furnishes  a  very 
satisfactory  site  for  the  college.  Durham  is  reached  by  the 
western  branch  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  and  is 
about  half-way  between  Boston  and  Portland.  It  is  a  small 
village,  with  the  result  that  the  students  find  little  there 
to  distract  them  from  collegiate  interests.  Since  moving 
to  Durham  eleven  large  brick  buildings  and  many  other 
minor  ones  have  been  erected,  yet  so  rapid  has  been  the 
growth  of  the  college  that  several  more  are  imperatively 


New  Hampshire  College  Forest. 


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needed.  One  of  the  latest  is  DeMeritt  Hall,  an  $80,000 
structure,  most  admirably  arranged  and  equipped  for  elec¬ 
trical  and  mechanical  engineering  and  drawing.  Another 
new  building  is  Fairchild  Hall,  named  by  the  trustees  in 
honor  of  President  Fairchild.  This  is  the  dormitory  for 
men.  It  will  accommodate  106  students,  giving  each  two 
students  a  study  and  bedroom.  The  women  who  come  to 
Durham  and  who,  since  the  establishment  of  the  course  in 
Home  Economics,  are  coming  in  constantly  increasing 
numbers,  have  two  dormitories  devoted  to  them.  Men 
students  not  accommodated  in  Fairchild  Hall  are  housed 
in  the  homes  of  the  several  Greek  letter  fraternities  repre¬ 
sented  here,  and  in  residences  in  the  village. 

STUDENTS. 

The  students  of  New  Hampshire,  because  of  the  courses 
offered,  fall  naturally  into  three  groups.  First,  there  are 
those  who  are  taking  the  four-year  courses  in  agriculture, 
arts  and  science,  or  engineering.  Secondly,  there  are  stu¬ 
dents  who  are  taking  two-year  courses  in  agriculture  or  in 
engineering.  Thirdly,  there  are  students  who  come  to 
Durham  for  periods  varying  from  one  to  five  weeks  in  the 
winter,  to  take  one  or  all  of  the  many  short  courses  in  agri¬ 
culture  offered  each  year. 

THE  EXTENSION  SERVICE. 

There  should  be  mentioned  here  still  another  group  of 
students,  those  who  do  not  come  to  Durham.  They  are 
busy  with  their  daily  cares  at  home.  They  are  not  boys 
and  girls  of  college  age;  they  are  either  men  and  women 
or  young  boys  and  girls. 

The  college  is  striving  to  serve  the  entire  state.  To  this 
end,  under  the  direction  of  Professor  John  C.  Kendall, 
director  of  the  Experiment  Station,  agricultural  assistance 
is  given  to  those  who  desire  it.  This  is  done  through  cor- 


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respondence  courses,  traveling  schools,  demonstrations, 
the  work  of  field  agents  of  many  kinds,  and  the  organization 
of  boys’  and  girls’  clubs.  It  is  from  the  college  also  that 
work  of  securing  county  agents  is  directed  and  there  is  also 
extension  work  in  home  economics. 

This  carrying  of  the  college  to  the  people  has  been  done 
for  many  years  by  the  agricultural  division,  and  similar 
work  is  now  being  done,  though  not  on  so  comprehensive 
a  scale,  by  the  engineering  and  by  the  arts  and  science 
divisions. 

These  two  divisions  have  issued  bulletins  giving  lists  of 
faculty  members  who  are  ready  to  give  lectures  anywhere 
in  the  state  where  they  may  be  desired  whenever  their 
duties  in  Durham  will  permit.  The  response  on  the  part 
of  the  people  has  been  gratifying  and  there  is  already  a 
greater  demand  for  services  than  can  be  met. 

FRATERNITIES. 

There  are  seven  fraternities,  two  of  them  being  chapters 
of  national  organizations,  and  the  others  local.  These  are 
all  Greek  letter  societies,  and  students  are  taken  into  them 
in  the  freshman  year.  The  fraternity  houses,  near  the 
campus,  photographs  of  which  are  shown  on  another  page, 
are  centers  of  much  undergraduate  activity.  The  women 
students  have  similar  organizations,  and  the  three  Greek 
letter  sororities  occupy  the  same  prominent  place  that  the 
fraternities  do  in  the  case  of  the  men. 

ATHLETICS. 

New  Hampshire  is  well  represented  in  athletics.  This 
year  the  college  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  W.  H.  Cowell, 
formerly  of  the  University  of  Pittsburg,  as  physical  and 
athletic  director.  Mr.  Cowell  is  a  football,  baseball  and 
basketball  expert,  and  an  all-around  athlete  of  more  than 
usual  ability.  He  was  assistant  coach  in  football  for  the 


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Haskell  Indian  school  team,  and  declined  the  place  of 
assistant  at  Carlisle  to  come  to  New  Hampshire.  His  first 
football  season  here  has  been  remarkably  successful,  and 
New  Hampshire  rejoiced  in  the  defeat  of  Worcester  Poly¬ 
technic  by  a  score  of  20  to  0  in  the  big  game  of  the  year. 
In  track.  New  Hampshire  scored  a  victory  over  Rhode 
Island  last  season  by  78  to  38,  and  in  the  meets  with  Bates 
and  the  University  of  Vermont  failed  to  win  first  place  by 
the  narrowest  of  margins. 


Public  Exercises  in  Gymnasium, 

MUSICAL  ORGANIZATIONS. 


As  the  college  has  a  regiment  of  infantry,  it  necessarily 
has  a  regimental  band,  and  this  organization  gives  concerts 
in  the  spring  and  lends  yeomen  service  at  all  athletic  con¬ 
tests.  Besides  the  band,  there  are  two  glee  clubs, — one 
for  men  and  one  for  women, — and  a  college  orchestra.  Both 
clubs  give  concerts  in  Durham  each  year,  and  the  men 
accompanied  by  the  orchestra  make  one  or  two  tours  through 
the  state.  This  year  two  of  the  concerts  will  be  given  in 
Maine. 


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THE  CADET  CORPS. 

As  in  the  case  of  all  state  colleges,  students  at  New  Hamp¬ 
shire  are  required  to  take  courses  in  Military  Science  and 
Drill.  On  drill  afternoon  companies  are  at  work  on  the 
campus,  a  signal  squad  is  wig-wagging  from  the  tower  of 
Nesmith  Hall,  and  perhaps  two  wireless  squads  will  be  seen 
with  their  portable  field  apparatus  talking  to  each  other 
across  a  half-mile  stretch  of  fields  and  houses.  There  are 
elective  courses  in  Military  Science,  as  well  as  prescribed 
ones,  and  this  spring  there  will  be  instruction  work  in  trench¬ 
digging  under  the  direction  of  Lieutenant  S.  J.  Sutherland, 
the  United  States  Army  oflScer  in  command  here. 


DRAMATIC  CLUB. 

Last  year,  students  under  the  direction  of  the  Women’s 
League,  an  organization  of  women  students  and  wives  of 
members  of  the  faculty,  gave  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire, 
Madeleine  Ducette  Hiley’s  “Mice  and  Men.”  The  pro¬ 
duction  was  so  successful  that  a  dramatic  club  was  organ¬ 
ized  which  this  year  has  given  in  Durham,  Hawtrey’s 
“Private  Secretary,”  and  now  has  another  play  under 
rehearsal.  Members  of  the  casts  are  chosen  through  com¬ 
petitive  trials  and  the  coach  is  a  professional. 


RELIGIOUS  ORGANIZATIONS. 

There  are  two  religious  societies,  the  College  Christian 
Association  for  the  young  men,  and  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  for  the 
women.  Regular  weekly  Sunday  afternoon  meetings  are 
held  in  Thompson  Hall  by  the  men,  the  addresses  being 
given  either  by  some  out-of-town  speakers  of  note  or  by 
members  of  the  college  faculty.  The  Y.  W.  C.  A.  holds 
a  regular  meeting  each  Thursday  evening  in  Smith  Hall, 
one  of  the  dormitories  for  girls,  and  it  also  conducts  Bible 
study  classes  in  the  winter.  Students  are  always  made 


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welcome  at  the  Durham  church,  where  socials  and  enter¬ 
tainments  make  pleasant  the  winter  months. 

OTHER  ORGANIZATIONS. 

Each  of  the  three  college  divisions  has  a  club,  the  oldest 
being  the  Agricultural  Club,  the  next  the  Engineering  Club, 
and  the  third  the  newly  organized  Liberal  Arts  Club.  These 
three,  which  include  both  students  and  members  of  the 
faculty  have  regular  meetings,  and  by  lectures  and  papers 
delivered  by  members  and  by  men  and  women  from  outside, 
stimulate  interest  in  the  subjects  of  the  three  divisions. 

There  are  several  other  student  organizations  devoted  to 
educational  matters.  Among  these  are  ‘‘The  Scroll  and  the 
Book”  for  the  study  of  literature,  the  Chemistry  Club,  and 
the  Economics  Club. 


A  College  Group. 


PUBLICATIONS. 

New  Hampshire  students  have  two  publications,  the 
annual  known  as  “The  Granite,”  and  the  w^eekly  college 
newspaper,  The  New  Hampshire.  The  latter  has  a  wide 
circulation  in  college  and  among  the  alumni.  Students  are 


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appointed  to  the  New  Hampshire  staff  by  the  editor-in- 
chief,  himself  a  student,  who  selects  the  new  men  from 
among  the  best  volunteer  workers. 

HONORS  AND  LETTERS. 

Athletes  fulfilling  conditions  laid  down  by  the  athletic 
council  are  awarded  each  year  the  “N.  H.”  in  the  different 
activities.  A  special  watch-fob  is  awarded  the  man  or 
woman  who  is  appointed  on  The  New  Hampshire  staff. 


A  Picnic  Group. 


STUDENT-LIFE. 

College  exercises  are  from  eight  until  twelve  o’clock,  and 
from  one-thirty  until  four  each  weekday  except  Saturday. 
On  Saturday  there  are  no  afternoon  classes.  Saturday 
night  in  winter  is  usually  the  time  for  basketball  games  and 
there  are  concerts,  plays,  informals,  and  house  parties  in 
the  winter  and  spring.  There  is  a  lecture  course  under  the 
auspices  of  the  college  each  winter,  and  many  men  and 
women  of  distinction  speak  at  the  weekly  students’  convo¬ 
cations. 


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THE  REAL  COLLEGE. 

Life  at  Durham  is  not  all  basketball  and  informal 
and  fraternity  meetings.  This  book  has  set  these  forth  at 
some  length  because  the  reader  must  know  about  them  to 
understand  what  life  at  New  Hampshire  College  means  to 
the  boys  and  girls  who  come  here  every  fall.  This  book  is 
dedicated  to  the  incidentals  of  college  life.  The  college 
catalog  tells  of  the  fundamentals. 

New  Hampshire  College  is,  impressively  to  the  casual 
visitor  and  more  impressively  to  the  resident  of  years,  a 
serious  place.  The  students  who  come  here  come  largely 
for  definite  purposes.  They  are  seeking  a  higher  education 
which  is  to  help  them  all  their  lives,  and  no  matter  what  else 
they  may  do,  they  rarely  fail  to  give  first  heed  to  this  pri¬ 
mary  purpose. 

HOW  TO  GET  INFORMATION. 

For  those  who  desire  specific  knowledge  in  regard  to 
expenses  and  entrance  requirements,  a  letter  to  Professor 
C.  H.  Pettee,  Dean  of  the  College,  will  meet  with  a  prompt 
reply.  The  catalog  gives  all  details,  but  the  officials  of  the 
college  are  always  ready  to  put  their  time  at  the  disposal 
of  those  seeking  special  information. 


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